2013 LoL Season

Lore & Background

Before entering esports, the origin of Team SoloMid (TSM) traces back to September 2009, when Andy "Reginald" Dinh and his brother Dan Dinh created a blog, which became SoloMid.net, during their college years providing written guides for the game League of Legends. The Dinh brothers were both part of a League of Legends clan called All or Nothing during the game's beta testing, which later rebranded to SoloMid. A small group of players that represented the SoloMid.net community would become the original TSM team: SaintVicious, Chaox, TheOddOne, Locodoco, and Reginald. Team SoloMid was officially created in January 2011. Later that year, Riot Games launched the first season of what would become the League Championship Series. By then, both SaintVicious and Locodoco had left the team, and TheRainMan and Xpecial had replaced them to complete TSM's roster of the first season. The same year, Jack Etienne had become the general manager for the team. In 2013, Reginald left the team to run the TSM business full time.

Reader's Guide

TSM's League of Legends team won seven of the total sixteen splits of North America's League of Legends Championship Series (LCS).

Did You Know?

• In 2014, TSM expanded into Hearthstone by signing MaSsan, Trump, and Kripparrian.
• TSM signed chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura on August 27, 2020.